William Colby Quotes

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Society is held together by trust.

Every man cannot have his way in all things…Without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.

The individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages, each striving for supremacy, because each was blind to the value and importance of the other.

We must learn to live together as brothers or we will live separately as fools.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other’s honesty.

When people believe they need each other, they cooperate.

We believe that “we are all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you are on your own”.

If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.